Congressman Adam Schiff has become the latest US politician to get a profane nickname from Donald Trump after the president labeled him “little Adam Schitt,” sending Twitter into convulsions.Read more ...

Finland's President doesn't remember telling Trump they rake forest floors to prevent wild fires, he told media on Sunday.
Trump told CNN on Saturday that Finns "spent a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things and they don't have any problem."
Sauli Niinistö said he advised Trump about fire-prevention but only spoke about Finland's surveillance network, not any "raking."
Trump made the statement on his first visit to the area destroyed by the Camp Fire, which killed at least 71 people.
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President Donald Trump appears to believe that forest fires, such as those that have devastated parts of California this month, can be prevented with some judicious raking-and he believes he believes this because the Finnish president told him so.
However, the president of Finland has no idea what Trump is going on about.
“You've got to take care of the floors. You know the floors of the forests, it's very important,” Trump said amid the ruins of the town of Paradise, which was entirely razed by the Camp Fire. He added that President Sauli Niinisto of the “forest nation” of Finland told...Read more ...

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Finns are mocking President Donald Trump with the hashtag RakeAmericaGreatAgain after the U.S. leader suggested that Finland was able to prevent wildfires by "raking" the "floors of the forest."Read more ...